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Health Care Worker Influenza Vaccination

Health care workers can acquire influenza from patients or transmit influenza to patients and other staff. Annual vaccination of health care workers can prevent influenza transmission. This report presents healthcare worker influenza vaccination rates for Oregon hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, dialysis facilities, and ambulatory surgery centers from the 2018-2019 to the 2022-2023 influenza seasons.

• Health Care Worker Influenza Vaccination Dashboard

Reportable HAI Data in Oregon

• Hospital HAI Data Dashboard

The Hospital HAI data dashboard provides data on the nine reportable HAIs for Oregon hospitals from 2016 through 2021.

The interactive dashboard includes trend graphs to show HAI incidence over time and facility-specific maps and tables to show how Oregon hospitals performed compared to the U.S. as a whole and to national goals for HAI reduction.

There is also an option to download the data.

Articles

• When Healthcare Becomes Health Scare, 12/2017 - This issue looks at HAI measures reported by hospitals
• Taking a Shot at Injection Safety, 7/2017 - This issue describes practices and settings where injection safety is a concern
• Clostridium Difficile Infection: Our Biggest Nosocomial Problem? 7/2017 - This issue delineates the burden of CDI, offers recommendations on how to prevent transmission, and suggests educational resources for healthcare providers
• Candidemia: Central line and Main Line, 1/2017 - This issue offers data on candidemia in Oregon
• Cryptosporidiosis in Baker City: Proposed Administrative Changes, 10/2013 - This issue presents the proposed changes to Oregon Administrative Rules (OARs) that take effect January 1, 2014
• Drop Everything: The CRE are Coming, 4/2016 - This issue provides background on the classification and clinical importance of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and describes our efforts to control their spread 
  

• Establishment of a Statewide Network for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriacea Prevention in a Low-Incidence Region (2014)
• Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care–Associated Infections (Abstract), Magill S., et. al. NEJM 2014; 370:1198-1208.
  
• Evaluating the Accuracy of Sampling to Estimate Central Line–Days: Simplification of the National Healthcare Safety Network Surveillance Methods, Thompson N., et al., ICHE 2013;34:221-228.
• Statewide Validation of Hospital-Reported Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections, Oregon, 2009

Toolkits

• Oregon CRO Toolkit
  

The Oregon CRO Toolkit is designed as a practical working document to aid the health care workforce groups most predictably involved in the detection, treatment, and prevention of CRO in Oregon, anmely infectious diseases physicians, health care epidemiologists, infection preventionists, nurses, and microbiologists.

• Oregon Multidrug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Toolkit

Surveys

Oregon’s HAI program distributes surveys to various healthcare facilities and laboratories to determine current trends and needs. Below are highlights, by facility and year.